American Life in the Roaring Twenties, 1919-1929
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| 356764341 | Ku Klux Klan | White-supremacist group formed by six former Conferedate officers after the Civil War. Group eventually turned to terrorist attacks on blacks. The original Klan was disbanded in 1869, but was later resurrected by white supremacists in 1915. Demonstrated the nativist attitude that pervaded American society during the 1920s. | |
| 356764342 | Eighteenth Amendment | Established Prohibition. Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. | |
| 356764343 | Scopes Trial | 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. This event exposed a deep debate in American society between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of thought. | |
| 356764344 | Henry Ford | Founder of Ford Motor Company, sponsored assembly line technique of mass production, introduced the Model T automobile that revolutionized transportation and the American industry. | |
| 356764345 | National Origins Act | Act which restricted immigration from any one nation to two percent of the number of people already in the U.S. of that national origin in 1890. Severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and excluded Asians entirely. Demonstrated the nativist attitude of many Americans during the 1920s. | |
| 356764346 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Two Italian anarchists who were tried and convicted of murder even though there was limited evidence against them; shows fear of immigrants/anarchists during the 1920s. | |
| 356764347 | Quota System | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country. | |
| 356764348 | Palmer Raids | A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities. | |
| 356764349 | Back to Africa Movement | A movement that called for all people of African descent to return to their homeland; a result of Marcus Garvey's dream of a Universal Negro Improvement Association. | |
| 356764350 | Marcus Garvey | African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927. | |
| 356764351 | Langston Hughes | African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance. | |
| 356764352 | Harlem Renaissance | a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American. | |
| 356764353 | Flapper | Women in the 1920's who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations. Although not a majority of women, flappers represented the "new morality" often seen during the 1920s. | |
| 356764354 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Was part of both the jazz age and the lost generation. Wrote books encouraging the flapper culture, and books scorning wealthy people being self-centered. | |
| 356764355 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs. | |
| 356764356 | Margaret Sanger | American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. | |
| 356764357 | Frank Lloyd Wright | An influential United States architect who works included original, and innovative designs for buildings. He also promoted organic architecture. | |
| 356764358 | Ernest Hemingway | wrote A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI, belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation' | |
| 356764359 | The Spirit of St. Louis | The name of Lindbergh's single-engined plane from NY to Paris; on which he completed the first solo west-to-east conquest of the Atlantic | |
| 356764360 | Lost Generation | Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe | |
| 356764361 | Birth of A Nation | Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK. |
